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BT4 Stuck at white screen after startx command

Hi,

when I boot with the BT4 DVD everything is OK until i start booting into KDE. When type "startx" system starts loading but right after that i get a white screen. I can hear the DVD-ROM reading from the disc and also the sound "Finish Him" but at this moment all i get is a white screen.

Thank you for your replies but I have googled for the problem, found a lot of solutions but all they say is configure x-server.

But none of them tell how to do it I have visited about 30 topics and all i got was to get into x-server configuration where i was only able to configure my keyboard.

I don't like always asking questions but there are a lot of linux distros and different commands. And i am totally newbie, coming from the windows world where i didn't had to type a bunch of commands to configure my driver

Thank you for your replies but I have googled for the problem, found a lot of solutions but all they say is configure x-server.
But none of them tell how to do it I have visited about 30 topics and all i got was to get into x-server configuration where i was only able to configure my keyboard.
I don't like always asking questions but there are a lot of linux distros and different commands. And i am totally newbie, coming from the windows world where i didn't had to type a bunch of commands to configure my driver
Further help needed.
Thank you for your understanding.

Generally speaking after you find the problem then you start working on the fix.
Don't you tell me that you didn't find a single tutorial on how to configure the x-server in Linux especially ubuntu. That just means you didn't try hard enough.
Two options go find a tutorial on it or give up. The choice is yours.
Further more if you are a newbie then I would suggest you follow KMDave's advice.

Generally speaking after you find the problem then you start working on the fix.
Don't you tell me that you didn't find a single tutorial on how to configure the x-server in Linux especially ubuntu. That just means you didn't try hard enough.
Two options go find a tutorial on it or give up. The choice is yours.
Further more if you are a newbie then I would suggest you follow KMDave's advice.

I will not give up. I will try harder and write the ultra noobish tutorial myself when i got succeed.

That's right cool_recep. Don't take any crap from those people who want you to just go to google, and don't want to help here. They love computers and can't stand people.
The video configuration you need is the same as if you were just running a recent Ubuntu install. Log in and try:
dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
and try different settings. If you do searches, be sure to look for others with your video chipset using Ubuntu or BT4. Never ever give up...

Way to dig up and old thread from an OP who was last here 13 days ago.
BTW if the OP wants to ask questions that is ok, but it is also up to the OP to do the leg work in order to achieve a specified goal. Plenty of relevant information was given to help him out.
As has been stated thousands of times, BT is not a beginners distro, or really suited to learn *nix on.